"I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die"
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The subtext is a grievance with domestication. By the late 80s and early 90s, "rebellion" had become a marketing category: major-label metal, MTV gloss, safe transgression packaged for suburban bedrooms. Allin positions himself as the corrective, the one willing to pay in blood, arrests, bans, and bodily collapse for what others only mime. "Bring danger back" implies it left, and that its absence is a moral failure - of audiences who want rebellion without consequence, of venues that want edge without liability, of peers who want myth without sacrifice.
Context matters because Allin's "danger" wasn't metaphorical. His performances treated self-destruction as authenticity and violence as theater, collapsing the boundary between art and harm. That's the uncomfortable power of the quote: it dares you to admit what you actually want from rock. Not freedom, exactly - permission. He offers an extremism that can't be easily absorbed, which is precisely why it still reads as a challenge rather than a slogan.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Allin, GG. (2026, January 15). I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-trying-to-bring-danger-back-in-to-rock-n-roll-173412/
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Allin, GG. "I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-trying-to-bring-danger-back-in-to-rock-n-roll-173412/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-trying-to-bring-danger-back-in-to-rock-n-roll-173412/. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.








